Month: March 2018

A notation found in Mrs. Eddy’s Bible reads as follows: “Whenever animal magnetism encroached on his consciousness David pursued the error and ascertained the cause (in belief), recovered lost ground. This advanced him to such a condition of mind that, instead of having to meet each insignificant claim of evil, he saw it as one, although still a giant.” Mary Baker Eddy (Carpenter, Gilbert, 500 Watching Points, #179)

Our consciousness is cognizant only of the things of God, and believes only that testimony. Mary Baker Eddy (Carpenter, GIlbert, Fragments Gathered From Unpublished Items Ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy, p.76)

Heaven is within man, when all is harmony. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Our mortal idea of Him is progressing, growing, expanding. Mary Baker Eddy (Carpenter, Gilbert, Collectanea of Items By and About Mary Baker Eddy, p.103

May 13, 1903. Is there any darkness in light? No. Is there any evil in good? No. What tells you there is? Belief; my false sense. Have you a false sense? No. THERE. Is there any belief? No. Then KNOW it. Mary Baker Eddy (Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.1)

Has the Springtide brought this harvest to the human heart, putting on costly wardrobes. gained in seasons of toil, defeat, and triumph? Are Christian Scientists as faithful as the seasons, birds and flowers? Do they challenge mankind as sweetly to flock to the Springtide of God’s omnipotence – His power to heal and save? Will they sing in the storm? If buds of hope disclose scarcely one blossom, and birds are silent, will they yet wait and work, till the latent elements of harmonious being control earth’s cold and heat, sunshine and shadow, and the heart’s seedling and germ spring into freedom and greatness? Mary Baker Eddy (Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.148)

Resurrected and purified desires; praise, for man’s ability to seek and find the Kingdom of Heaven here-the reign of harmony that furnishes glimpses of the great Source whence cometh all earth’s beautiful hieroglyphics of Love; joy, that human character may be stately as the cedars of Lebanon, and Truth thrive like the willows by the water-courses; humility, bowing down before His goodness, and peering through mortal mind; industry, arranging with beauty each budding thought as it puts forth new glories; higher aspirations and purer pleasures, which give spiritual energy and power to work for man and in obedience to God. Mary Baker Eddy (Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.147-148)

The crown imperial rears his regal splendor to the god of day. Do we as wisely lift our poor perceptions above the clod, and look long enough away from earth and toward heaven—harmony—to behold “how good and pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity?” —EDITOR. Mary Baker Eddy (CS Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1883, p.4)

The snow birds tarry with the storms, and pipe to the breeze. The cuckoo sounds her viewless flute to call the feathered troops back from their winter residences, and old Robin comes soonest to sing ‘mid blossom and blast. Are we as faithful, and do we challenge mankind as sweetly to flock to the Spring-time of God’s power to heal and to save? Will we stay and sing in the storm, if the buds scarcely disclose one blossom; and wait and work till all the mental elements of cold and heat and sunshine and shadow have combined to start the latent germs and seedlings of truth into quickened vitality? The modest violet lifts her blue eye to heaven. Mary Baker Eddy (CS Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1883, p.4)